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Tomoga of the Mimasuya as a Country Messenger (Sato no hikyaku), from the series Gion Festival Costume Parade (Gion mikoshi arai nerimono sugata)


「祇園神輿はらい ねりもの姿 里の飛脚 三升屋友賀」
Harukawa Goshichi (Kamiya Hôshû) (Japanese, 1776–1831?)
Publisher: Yamasa (Japanese)
Publisher: Kanôya Kitarô
Publisher: Sutô
Japanese
Edo period
1814 (Bunka 11)

Medium/Technique Woodblock/stencil print (kappazuri); ink on paper, with stenciled color
Dimensions Hosoban; 33.4 x 15.1 cm (13 1/8 x 5 15/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.26567
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 124; Ujlaki and Nakade, "Gion nerimono prints revisited: The list," Andon 75 (2003), GN 1814-17 (no photo)
Signed Harukawa ga
はる川画
Marks Publishers' marks: Yamasa, Kyô Nawate Kanôki han, Yakushimae Sutô han
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: August 3, 1911)

NOTES:
[1] Much of Bigelow's collection of Asian art was formed during his residence in Japan between 1882 and 1889, although he also made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. Bigelow deposited many of these objects at the MFA in 1890 before donating them to the Museum's collection at later dates.